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Digital Business Automation Ideas


This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

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  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Please use the following category to raise ideas for these offerings for all environments (traditional on premises, containers, on cloud):
  • Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights

  • Business Automation Workflow (BAW) - including BAW, Business Process Manager, Workstream Services, Business Performance Center, Advanced Case Management

  • Content Services - FileNet Content Manager

  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

  • Content Services - Navigator

  • Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

  • Content Services - Content Collector for SAP

  • Content Services - Enterprise Records

  • Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)

  • Datacap

  • Automation Document Processing

  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.


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Pinned ideas

PINNED SQL statements in Dashboard Widgets
I think using SQL statements in widgets would be great to leverage the entire potential of the data uploaded to IBM Process Mining. Lots of important and helpful information cannot be displayed today as it's only SQL-like. I don't think that using...
PINNED Filter UI enables having OR between filters (not just AND)
Users want to filter cases for client1 OR client2. They can't without creating a custom filter with javascript -- which they don't like at all

All ideas

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Update Container Reference Architecture for CP4BA.

Our existing reference architecture for our container platform based CP4BA is 2 years old. Reference architecture is viewed as "table steaks" in terms of selling software. It is requested in EVERY RFP/RFI. It is often requested/required by our cli...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

Reset the overdue flag upon changing the custom data field without leaving and coming back to the same step

When the custom date field is updated to future date for overdue cases from BAW/Case Manager screen, the overdue flag should reset and recalculate the deadline, without moving the worktime from its current step.
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enhance - Ability to have environment variables per baw server instance scoped

Possible environment variables baw server instance scoped instead of application-scoped, to allow for easier update of external services and others (endpoints, users, password, etc.) If the customer has more than 300 process apps which have a few ...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Test SSAS on a SQLServer DB on AWS for Case Analyzer component

My client needs SQL Server and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) for their Case Analyzer component. They are moving to CP4BA and wanted to know if IBM supports this. I was told by support and product team that because it was not tested it is not...
7 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

ARSDOC QUERY to provide mapped values

When running ARSDOC QUERY to extract data from CMOD the option to pull out the mapped values as displayed on the client. We have a use case where we want to get the mapped values and not the database values. Using CMOD REST is not the best tool fo...
7 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

IBM Daeja Viewer support for "XRechnungen"

An xInvoice (short for xRechnung in German) is a standardized electronic invoice format specifically developed for exchanging invoices with government authorities and public institutions in Germany. It is based on European standards (EN 16931) and...
7 days ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

Audit function for Workflow Status Change

When using API to interact with workflow in kie server, there is no out-of-box function on recording the change time/user who did the change e.t.c. Can we add these functions? (One way to achieve it is to enlarge the AUDITTASKIMPL table to include...
7 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Submitted

CPE containers for FNCM and CP4BA do not include the feature needed to allow for the ccdtURL needed to make an HA connection to an MQ server.

CPE containers for FNCM and CP4BA do not include the feature needed to allow for the ccdtURL needed to make an HA connection to an MQ server.
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

Export of Decision Tables (DT) to Excel should export also the Table formats

When you have a Format set to your Decision Table column, this format is not being exported when you export the Decision Table. The result may not be usable as such for instance for script operation by the customer, forcing extra editing operation...
21 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Requesting to include Artifact ID in the artifact change grouping in the Blueworks Account Activity Reporting API

Requesting to include Artifact ID in the artifact change grouping in the Blueworks Account Activity Reporting API. We encounter duplication records in Activity log API extract. The assume duplication records show the same data of 2 different activ...
about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review